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High voltage electrician

Gladstone
Rio Tinto
Electrician
Posted: 5 March
Offer description

* Permanent employment which includes attractive salary, annual Incentives and a huge range of additional benefits which are designed to make your life better.
* Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority.
* Boyne Smelter Opportunities available.

About The Role

Finding better waysTM to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for skilled High Voltage (HV) Electricians wanting to join our Power Supply team at Boyne Smelter (BSL).

You will join an essential & critical part of the Power infrastructure Team at BSL, maintaining constant power supply to the entire operation.

Reporting to the Maintenance Team Leader, and working a 9 day fortnight roster, your role may involve:

* Maintaining high voltage assets, infrastructure, and distribution systems.
* Operate the high voltage assets to ensure a continuity of electrical supply to Boyne Smelter.
* Identifying root causes of breakdowns.
* Participate in high voltage switching procedures.
* Liaising with external power providers.
* Ability to work effectively both within a team and independently.

What You'll Bring

* A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
* High Voltage industrial experience.
* An Australian 'A' grade Electrical licence.
* Experience working on overhead networks, transformers & Switching
* A High Voltage Isolation and Access (HVIA) certificate is desirable.

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

What We Offer

* Full relocation provided to Gladstone, Queensland from elsewhere in Australia
* A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
* A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
* A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
* Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
* Attractive share ownership plan. Company provided insurance cover
* Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
* Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
* Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
* Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
* To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
* Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

Where you'll be working

Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia's second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum.

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Boyne Smelters

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can't do it on our own, so we're focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win‐win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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